We’re excited to play as part of the 2025 Boston Celtic Music Festival at The Rockwell in Davis Square! While you’re there, check out our other amazing colleagues who are also performing in this annual event that includes performances, sessions, and a ceilidh over several days and multiple venues in Cambridge and Somerville.

Harvard Northwest Science Building: 52 Oxford St Cambridge, MA 02138

Directions

If coming by foot/public transportation, from the Harvard T station you can walk across the Harvard Yard towards Cambridge Street. Shows will happen at the plaza on the overpass in front of the science Center facing the science building (where all of the food trucks are).

Summer BCMFest is tailored after the annual BCMFest (Boston Celtic Music Fest), a weekend gathering held each January to celebrate Greater Boston ’s richness of music, song and dance from the Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton and other Celtic traditions.  Like its winter counterpart, Summer BCMFest showcases the diversity of sounds and styles found in Boston’s Celtic music community.

Outdoor events from 3pm-5pm on Palmer St. – FREE
3pm Youth Fiddle Group – with instructor Clíodhna Field
4pm Mrs. Wilberforce – with Sean Smith and Kyra Davies

A couple of local duos will present “One Summer Night,” an evening of Celtic and chamber music on June 21 at the Lilypad in Cambridge’s Inman Square. Mrs. Wilberforce (Kyra Davies, fiddle, viola, vocals; Sean Smith, guitar, bouzouki, tenor banjo, vocals) features a repertoire from Ireland, Scotland and Cape Breton – but also further afield, like Shetland, Brittany and Galicia, among other places. Although their sound is rooted in tradition, they readily draw upon classical and contemporary folk/folk-rock domains. The pair have appeared at BCMFest, Newton PorchFest and The BeBop. Room to Spare is the union of Julia Connor, a classically trained violinist with a penchant for Irish fiddling, and David Leach, a jazz pianist with a heavy-metal habit. Their improvisation-rich compositions blend evocative, virtuosic instrumentalism with introspective lyricism, while drawing on vocabularies of classical, jazz, traditional Irish, rock, and new music. Room to Spare, which released an album in 2019, was recognized by WBUR as one of the top entries from Massachusetts in NPR's “Tiny Desk” Contest.

For more about Mrs. Wilberforce, see mrswilberforce.com

Check out the Room to Spare website at roomtosparemusic.com

Mrs. Wilberforce returns to play our annual set at Newton Porchfest, the site of our first-ever performance together back in 2018!

Come to Harvard’s Countway Library on the Longwood campus to hear some of our classic sets (and a few new ones!)